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I have a bookshelf of books next to me and the only ones with even slightly similar spines are books in the same series, not to speak of the covers. I opened a

I have a bookshelf of books next to me and the only ones with even slightly similar spines are books in the same series, not to speak of the covers. I opened a couple of text heavy ones and they all had different font choices and minor variations on page layout. Most of them had elaborate and unique chapter headings. Book typesetting is a fascinating subject, I would recommend anyone who works with websites to look into the way typography influences the reader's subconscious. (Maybe we'd have less Helvetica spaffed all over the internet!)

kkoncevicius 3y ago
> I would recommend anyone who works with websites to look into the way typography influences the reader's subconscious. To me, paradoxically, it reached a point where my subconscious associates light or poor typography with serious material, and pretty web pages with empty ad-ridden content: Serious vibe: http://fmwww.bc.edu/repec/bocode/t/transint.html http://fmwww.bc.edu/repec/bocode/t/transint.html Intermediate vibe: https://drewdevault.com/2023/06/30/Social-and-parasocial-media.html https://drewdevault.com/2023/06/30/Social-and-parasocial-med... Empty content vibe: https://www.theverge.com/2023/7/12/23792382/google-notebooklm-tailwind-ai-notes https://www.theverge.com/2023/7/12/23792382/google-notebookl...
GoblinSlayer 3y ago
Ebooks used to be plain text files, it worked well.